Right on the heels of the growing Highway 141 garage sale, towns along the old Lincoln Highway from West Virginia to Iowa are hosting the 5th annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way this weekend, Aug. 7-9.
In its heyday, the Lincoln Highway was Main Street through Grand Junction, Jefferson and Scranton. As of Monday, several garage sales in Grand Junction and Jefferson are listed on the statewide directory. Glidden, also a Lincoln Highway Town, is holding city-wide garage sales this weekend as well. Click on the ad/link on GreeneCountyNewsOnline for the updated list with exact locations.
The Lincoln Highway started in 1913 as a joining and improving of existing local roads. To help perpetuate this history lesson, Iowa now presents this first transcontinental highway to the public and especially the traveling public as a Trans-State Historic Byway. The various alignments – or routes – of the Lincoln Highway are a museum: 400-plus miles stretching from Clinton to Council Bluffs, going through Greene County.
The Iowa Lincoln Highway association jump-started the reestablishment of the National Lincoln Highway Association in Ogden, in October of 1992, almost 22 years ago.
“We have had many project successes—painted some poles, made new friends, saved highway-related bridges and roadside features –almost all of this to help the highway become the museum that tells the story of the development of our modern highway system. Through the years and now in our 21st century, this highway system has done as much as most anything to shape our country’s personality,” an Iowa Lincoln Highway Association spokesperson said.
Organizers of the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way hope to grow the annual event to a coast-to-coast sale the entire length of the Lincoln Highway. It would be a 3000-plus mile yard sale!
